[MPlayer-users] problems with getting video

[gabor]

On Wed, 2002-11-13 at 22:41, Brian Kreulen wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Hello everyone, I'm running mplayer version
> 0.90pre9-3.2 on RedHat 8.0, kernal version 2.4.18-14.
> I didn't do a RPM, I compiled and installed it myself.
> I have a Creative Labs Viper 770 Ultra, with the Riva
> TNT2 Ultra chipset. 
> 
> I've tested an avi file, and an mpg (both of which I
> know are good), and I'm getting some bad results, ie:
> the sound is good, but there's absolutely no video.
> 
> I've tried every single -vo option I can think of:
> 
> -The default framebuffer option gives: "Can't open
> /dev/fb0: No such device" (I've confirmed its
> existence)
> 
> -The -vo x11 option gives: "Error opening/initializing
> the selected video_out (-vo) device!" I'm almost
> certain my X server is running smoothly because I can
> bring up Xterms and such like that.
> 
> -The -vo vesa option gets the furthest. It actually
> recognizes the video codec, but at the end it just
> says: "Killed" with no explanation.
> 
> -All the other -vo options give similiar results.
> 
> I've tried all these options as both root and as a
> regular user, with varying results, but all without
> the video. Sometimes it crashes before it gets going.
> Sometimes it starts playing the video, but with sound
> only. I never get any video.
> 
> If anyone has ANY ideas, or if you need more info,
> please don't hesitate to send me any suggestions, no
> matter how stupid. I've tried everything in the FAQs,
> the Docs, and on Google and I've found nothing that
> worked.

what driver are u using for video? nvidia's binary? 
or the XFree86 one? "nv" or "nvidia"?

bye,
gabor
> 
> Thanks!!
> 
> 
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> Brian Kreulen
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